Note 63 — Chapter VI · THE NEW PALACE AT WESTMINSTER.

The exact sum named by Messrs. Seward and Chawner was (deducting 14,000l. as the value of old materials) 693,104l., to which was to be added 129,000l. for the embankment, purchase of land, &c., together with “a further and considerable expense, which cannot at present be satisfactorily ascertained,” for fittings and furniture of the residence, libraries, committee-rooms, offices, &c., for the provision for the records, for lighting, warming, and ventilating, for the great clock and bell. See quotation in pp. 3, 4 of Parliamentary Paper, No. 374, of Session of 1856.